Scientists are testing how satellites could collect power from the sun and send clean electricity to Earth—and getting encouraging results
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I highly recommend the hard science fiction books Delta-V and Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez. This concept gets explored there and I found the idea really fascinating. Hope to see this happen in my lifetime!
I still remember this being an option in SimCity, late 90s version? The “disaster” event was the laser beam missing, and cutting lines through your city and starting fires. I’m sure Sierra’s technology hasn’t influenced the real thing though.
I’d be curious to know the efficiency loss for both converting to microwaves, and for the actual long distance transmission